Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-29
Mr.. RANDALL'S BILL.
THE CHANGES 1T MAKES IN THE TARIFF
SCHEDULE.
How Manufacturers Will Be Affected II the Bill
Passes and What Branches Of Trade Will
be Afeeted-The Rates On Iron and
WoOl-CamparsOnS

WASHINGTON, ID, c., January 2S.-The
Randall bill, as finally perfected by the
private conference committee, is intended
rs substitute for H. B. 9702, introduced
last June by Mr.. Randall, and is substan-
TALLY more radical edition OF that bill
The most important change is the enlarge
ment of the free list, which in the new bill
will read as follows:
Timber, all not further advanced or
manufactured than hewn, sawed, squared
or sided. Boards, clapboards, deals, pal
ings, pickets, planks and other lumber in
the rough or sawed, not otherwise pro-
vided for.
Hubs for wheels, posts, last blocks,
wagon blocks, ear blocks, gun blocks,
heading blocks, and all like blocks or
sticks, rough-hewn or sawed only. Slaves
of wood of all kinds in the rough.
Provided, That if any export duty is
laid upon the above mentioned articles, or
either of them, by any country from whence
imported, all said articles, imported from
said country shall be subject to duty, as
now provided by law.
Baryta, sylphate OF, or barytes, unman-
ufactured, beeswax, bristles, bulbs and
bulbous roots, coal, slack or culm of such
size as will pass through halfinch
screen; coal tar and products and prepara-
tion of, not dyes OF colors such as anthra-
cine, benzine, benzole, cumidine, cymidine
deadoil, naphtha, napthale, napthaline,
pitch, resorcine, tolindine and xylidine.
Currants, zante or other dates; eggs,
yolks of, unmanufactured; feathers OF all
manufactured; figs, hatters' furs not on
skin, human hair, raw, uncleaned and not
drawn.
Istle of tampico fibre, China grass,
ramie, sisal grass, sum and all other tex
tile grasses or fibrous vegetable substances,
manufactured or undressed, not speci-
fically enumerated or otherwise provided
for; .jute, crude or not hackled or dressed;
jute bits; mineral waters, natural and
artificial, not specifically enumerated or
otherwise provided for; nuts, almonds,
shelled and not shelled; filberts and wal
nuts, potash, crude cal aIbonate Of or fused
caustic or hydrate OF, not including re-
fined, in sticks or rolls nitrate of, or salt
peter, crude, sulphate or Onide or unre-
fined.
Soda, sulphate of, known as salt cake,
crude or unrefined or nitre cake, crudo or
unrefned, and lauber salt, sponges, tar
and pitch of wood.
THE VARIOUS INTERESTS AFFECTED.
A fatal comma after the word coal"
puts coal on the free list, though
suppose Mr.. Randall intends this clause
to read "coal slack or culm," etc. A mis-
placed comma prevented the building of o
tin plate industry in this country. 1t Is
hoped that this error will be corrected
should the bill come up for passage. The
value of imported currants, dates and figs
was nearly 81 900, 600 and that of imported
almonds and filbcrts nearly 81, 500, 900.
The reduction of duty effected by this
change will he nearly III 900, 600 1t will
be vigorously opposed by the Pacific Coast
members, for theyOare asking for higher
rate Of duty.
The rates of duty on the manufactures
of the chemicals put on the free list are re-
duced to correspond with the supposed
advantage of free foreign raw material,
and the same process of reduction is ap-
piled TO planed and sawed lumber. Briar-
root wood, used in making pipes, is also
reduced to 20 per cent nd valorem. The
good features of Mr.. Randalls former bill,
so far as they refer 10 the iron and steel
schedule, have been entirely eliminated.
The paragraphs advancing the rate of duty
on the plates, certain grades Of iivets and
cotton ties have been abandoned, aud the
new bill will make the following reduc-
tiOns.